On Thursday 11 January 2007 10:07, elk dolk wrote: > Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Rick Stevens > <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 22:13 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Both myself, and Aaron Konstram are having problems with the complete > > shutdown of our machines. I am running FC5, and since some updates to > > FC5, kernels later than the original kernel installed from the CDROM > > refuse to shutdown cmpletely. The shutdown messages reach "power off" > > then nothing, and you have to press, and hold the start button on the PC > > to switch the machine off. When shutdown reaches the power off stage, I > > hear the harddrives spin down, but the machine is still active. > > > > these ar the kernels on my FC5: > > 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 (this one shutsdown ok) > > but all of these refuse to shutdown completely: > > 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 > > 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 > > 2.6.18-1.2200_FC5 > > 2.6.18-1.2239_FC5 > > and > > 2.6.18-1.2257_FC5 > > > > I have been googling, and found suggestions to use "lapic" . I'm not sure > > how to use it. I tried at the grub prompt for the kernel, using "lapic", > > or lapic=on" (without the double quotes) , but no success. > > > > Anyone have any suggestion how to use lapic, or even if this might solve > > the problem? > > All you need to do is append "lapic" to the kernel line in grub: > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb > quiet lapic > > (all on one line). That may not solve your issue. You may need to use > "noapic" instead: > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb > quiet noapic > > > My box has the same problem but appending lapic or noapic does not solve > the problem ! > I know of one box that required 'noapic nolapic'. It seems to be trial and error for this sort of problem. Anne
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